Defense

The aircraft is being prepared to complete a 200-flight hour test program to help the $805 million program reduce risk and perhaps accelerate its six-year EMD phase.

Results from a NASA-backed sounding rocket mission are shedding light on “speed bumps” for satellites that cause them to lose altitude.

Russia is looking to replace its aging Antonov An-124 transports and Ilyushin Co. has offered to satisfy the demand with the Il-96-500T.

The FCC ruling, issued April 26, will allow SpaceX to proceed with launch of an undisclosed number of Starlink satellites as early as next month.

The Long Endurance Advanced Off-board Electronic Warfare Platform (LEAP) is envisioned as complementary to the ALQ-248 Active Mission Payload for the MH-60 helicopter.

Eight airmen have designed an innovative tool estimated to save the U.S. Air Force roughly $500,000 annually in cowling repairs for the aging Northrop Grumman E-8C J-Stars aircraft.

Cobham said qualification of its Wing Aerial Refueling Pod for the KC-46A USAF tanker is “progressing” and testing should wrap up around the middle of 2020.

Problems with an unidentified supplier forced Moog, a provider of aerospace and defense fluid controls and systems, to report a $9 million charge in its fiscal second quarter of 2019.

CMC Electronics has received supplemental type certification from Transport Canada to install a satellite-based approach sensor unit on Boeing 737NG airliners.

The Ohio Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center and AFRL will start testing a ground-based detect-and-avoid radar system supporting long-range drone flights near Ohio’s Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport.

Italy’s Ministry for Economic Development has agreed on a timetable to re-establish the operations of troubled Piaggio Aerospace.

The Polish government has signed off on a contract for four AW101 three-engine naval helicopters for anti-submarine warfare and search and rescue missions.

India’s only serving aircraft carrier, the INS Vikramaditya, caught fire on April 26, killing a naval officer.

Propulsion system could enable development of lower-cost expendable HAPS platforms.

While the Israeli Air Force (IAF) is still debating whether to buy more F-35s, it is getting ready to begin operating its second F-35 squadron.

NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel is urging that neither policy makers nor NASA cut corners affecting crew safety and tech risk in the White House’s plans to accelerate a lunar return.

The Pentagon’s Inspector General (IG) has cleared Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan of unethical behavior.

The Pentagon is working on a process to modify Lockheed Martin F-35 afloat spares packages to match the needs of deployed aircraft by August 2020.

A fifth EQ-4 will soon join the fleet of manned and unmanned aircraft that carry a Northrop Grumman-built comm gateway payload called the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node.

Israeli sources say Houthi rebels in Yemen have downed a Chinese-made UAV operated by Saudi Arabia using an air-to-air missile adapted by the Iranians to be fired from the ground.

Raytheon leaders acknowledged a significant restructuring of their Missile Systems division April 25.

An helicopter assembly line owned by Airbus and Chinese state partners has begun putting together its first H135s, with deliveries due to begin this year.

Egypt has reportedly opted to buy a fleet of AW149 twin-engine utility helos to meet its requirements for a ship-borne tactical transport and assault helo.

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 sample return mission to the asteroid Ryugu has completed a low-altitude surveillance operation over the site where it dropped an explosive charge in early April to expose subsurface material for a planned second attempt to land and gather soil and rock.

U.S. charges GE employee with espionage; F-35 development cost now $428 billion; Lockheed’s new F-16 production line opens, and Indian trainer resumes test flights.